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Date | Masters & mistresses names & designations | Servants names | Quality of servants | Number of servants | Bachelor servants | One and two servants | Three and four servants | Five to seven servants | Eight to ten servants | Eleven or more servants | Duty |
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27 Apr 1786 | Robert Baikie of Tankerness | John Mather | Footman | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | |||||
27 Apr | James Riddoch Collector | James Scart | Footman | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | |||||
28 Apr 1786 | Robert Laing Merchant | David Bews | Footman | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | |||||
John Traill of Westness | John Loigie and Hugh Spence |
House Stewart Footman |
2 | 2 | £2.10.0 | ||||||
Totall | 5 | 5 | £6.5.0 |
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[Page] 69Survey MALE- SERVANTS TAX within the Town of Kirkwall
from 5th April 1786 to 5th April 1787 By Alexander Fraser Surveyor
I Alexander Fraser Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that the amount of the foregoing Survey of Maleservants Tax
within the Town of Kirkwall from fifth April Seventeen hundred and Eighty Six to Fifth April Seventeen hundred and
Eighty Seven is Six pound five Shillings and I make Oath that this day I delivered to Alexander Loutit Town Clerk
of Kirkwall and Collector of the said Tax For the Town aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above account examined and
compared with the foregoing.
Alexander Fraser Surveyor
At Kirkwall the 28 November 1786
Sworn before John Wier, J:P. [Justice of the Peace]
Transcriber's notes
GMB 27 Feb 2014 - valuation format corrected and updated, during period in which no images were available.Transcribers who have contributed to this page.
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Aberdeenshire County, Angus County, Ayrshire County, Banffshire County, Dumfriesshire County, Dunbartonshire County, East Lothian County, Fife County, Inverness-shire County, Lanarkshire County, Midlothian County, Morayshire County, Nairnshire County, Orkney County, Peeblesshire County, Perthshire County, Ross And Cromarty County, Roxburghshire County, Stirlingshire County, West Lothian County, Wigtownshire County